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Golias \ will have it to be thirty two. The [T)rah el Soudahy 

 o^^ys (pI>jJ\] Black Teek likewife, which the former obferves 

 to be no more than twenty one Digits in Length, is made by 

 the latter to be twenty feven. And moreover, the Digit ofKal- 

 hafendas is equal to a Space taken up by feven Barley Corns, 

 placed lide-ways ; whereas fix ' is the Meafure according to 

 Gol'mss Author. Kow as Kalkajendas is quoted by our Proteircr 

 Bernard, the Drah el Soudah, (i. e. the Cubit of twenty one 

 Digits,) is that, by which the iVi/e' was meafured: whereas in 

 the fame Author s DifTertation upon the Nile/cope \ the Cubit 

 is there defined to be exprefsly of twenty eight Digits. The'venot % 

 in giving us an Account of the dayly Increale, reckons by 

 a Teek of twenty four Digits ; though according to a like 

 Account, which I had from Signore Gahrieli, the Venetian 

 Gentleman above-mentioned, the Teek is there exprefsly of 

 i8 Inches^; fome what lefs than that, v^hichDr. Bernard^ tells 

 us he fa w the Model of in Marufidas. By the Length and Divifion 

 of the Mikeas, the Teek fhould be ftill longer. " The Mikeas, 

 (fays a curious Perfon^, in a Letter to me from Kairo,) is a 

 Pillar of 5-8 Englijb Feet high, divided into three Geome- 





Hoc menfusefl; olim Homarus Ebn Cottahi fpatium inter Bafrajii & Ciifam. 2. Hafenuus, qui 



6 Cubitus Major nuncupatur, digitorum 24. Digitus vero occupat 7 Hordea lata, aut 



7 X 7 — 49 Pilos burdonis. Illo vero Cubico aeftimatio verfat in Jure Mohammedico. Idem 

 teftatur Maruphidas. 3. BelaUus, Hafcnuo minor. 4. Cubitus Niger, BcUUo cedet digitis 

 2|, ab ^thiope quodam Kafidi Principis a latere nomen & modum fuum habet. Menlura 

 yEdificiorum, Nilumetri, merciumque prctiofarum. y. Jofippitus, \ digiti minor Cubito 

 Nigra. 6. Chorda five Afaba , brevior Cubito Nigra i' digiti. 7. Maharanius Cubitus, 

 2| Cubiti Nigri , fodis menfurandis Manione Principe imperatus. Vid. Edv. Bernard, de 

 Menfuris. p-2i7. i Vid. utfupra. p. 218. 2 Vid. utfupra. p. 220. 3 Qi^ilibet Cubitus 

 continet viginti ofto digitos donee compleatur elevatio aqux ad duodecim Cubitos. Deinde 

 Cubitus fit viginti quatuor digitorum. Quando igitur volunt fupponere banc elevationem 

 pertigifle ad (exdccim Cubitos, diftribuunt duos Cubitos redundances, qui continent viginti 

 odo digitos, inter duodecim Cubitos, quorum unufquifque continet viginti quatuordigi- 

 tos, ficque fit quilibet Cubitus viginti odoCubitorum. Kalk, ex tradud. V. CJ. /. Gagnier. 

 4 See his Travels in Englijh. p. 232. y June 29. N.S. 1714. The Nilev/as y Cubits high. 

 yiine soth it increafed 3 Inches. 



"^ ' Inches. July 12. y. Inches. July 23. 7. Inches. 



13. 4. 24. 8. 



14- <J. 2r ;i 7. 



If. 8. 26. "s 8. 



July 1 

 2 



3. 2 



4. 4, 



O. cs 4, 

 7- S <J 



8. .S 4 



9. .- s 



4 

 5 



10. 

 II. 



16. ^ 8. 27. t3 10. 



17. S If. 28. -S 15-. 



18. ij 25'. 29. •" 20. 

 Ip. -S ly. 30. 30. 



20. •- 10. 31. 48. 



21. 8. increafed, in all, (July ^i.) iy§| Cub. 



22. 6. yiug. I . Wafaa Allah. 



6 Poteft ex modulo Martifidx in MS. /irabico Bibliothecs noftrae Cubitus Hafemxus uncias 

 ^nglicanas 28, 9. De Menf. p, 219. 7 This Gentleman was the late Mr. Thomas Hur>ies, 

 who had been a great many Years a Fador at Kmo, and took the Meafures and Defigns 

 of moft of the Egyptian Antiquities. 



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